VA Community Care program under fire as vets wait for appointments, providers wait for payments The program will cost taxpayers $42 billion this fiscal year, and lawmakers are seeking more oversight.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is prepared to enact part of the VA Mission Act, which will expand veterans' access to care providers within the VA community, Federal News Network reports.

News Veterans, lawmakers seek fixes to VA's Veterans Community Care Program Critics say a lack of consistent policies and protocols plague the program, and can cause long wait times for appointments.

The increase in funding for the Community Care program, specifically, is in line with the Trump administration’s push to make it easier for veterans to seek care from private doctors — an option that ...

For veterans transitioning from military to civilian life, the lack of support for the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has been a point of contention for years, with delays in care and ...

The rule will extend program eligibility for legacy participants, legacy applicants and their family caregivers for three ...

More veterans are getting care outside of the VA through private providers. The agency says it expands access, but many fear ...

But is community care comparable to VA care? Not by a long shot. If VCCP care was the same as VA care, then: Private care appointment wait times would be publicly transparent. They aren't. Every ...

Veterans can get emergency medical exams with a Department of Veterans Affairs nurse under a new program that aims to keep patients out of non-VA emergency rooms and urgent care centers for ...